IODP Expedition 330 : drilling the Louisville Seamount Trail in the SW Pacific
(2013)
Journal Article
Koppers, A. A., Yamazaki, T., Geldmacher, J., Anderson, L., Beier, C., Buchs, D. M., Chen, L. H., Cohen, B. E., Deschamps, F., Dorais, M. J., Ebuna, D., Ehmann, S., Fitton, J. G., Fulton, P. M., Ganbat, E., Gee, J. S., Hamelin, C., Hanyu, T., Hoshi, H., Kalnins, L., …Williams, R. (2013). IODP Expedition 330 : drilling the Louisville Seamount Trail in the SW Pacific. Scientific Drilling, 11-22. https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-15-11-2013
Deep-Earth convection can be understood by studying hotspot volcanoes that form where mantle plumes rise up and intersect the lithosphere, the Earth's rigid outer layer. Hotspots characteristically leave age-progressive trails of volcanoes and seamou... Read More about IODP Expedition 330 : drilling the Louisville Seamount Trail in the SW Pacific.